Students at Jackson State University in Mississippi present their annual production of ‘Black Nativity’ in 2017. Charles A. Smith/Jackson State University/Historically Black Colleges &...
A colorized engraving depicts enslavers selling enslaved people in the 19th-century South. Corbis via Getty Images
by Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
As the United States...
JAM MASTER JAY
October 25
1940—The Black newspaper owners group—the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) is founded.
1940—Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black general...
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, after participating in an abortion rights sit-in on July 19, 2022, in Washington. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
by...
Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...
by Jason Oliver Evans, University of Virginia
With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching...
Millicent Brown, left, was one of the first two Black students to integrate a South Carolina public school, in September 1963.
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Roy Jones, Clemson...
by Quraysh Ali Lansana, Oklahoma State University
Quraysh Ali Lansana is the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation at Oklahoma State...
